tenuity

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All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebul�.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard